Sedutora Aventureira

Vera Zorina was a professional dancer, practically born with her ballet shoes on, and she made a double career as both dancer and film star. Here she is teamed with a pair of matchless scoundrels, Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, in the burglary and swindle business, making an art of their cheating, until she meets Richard Greene who sees her through but nevertheless falls in love with her. She is of the same kith as Carole Lombard, irresistible charming and beautiful and artful at the same time, and even if Richard Greene is totally honest and impossible to cheat, you must understand his falling under her spell irrevocably. The story is a great comedy with many farces and hilarious turns with many people involved, the comedians tending to constantly increase in numbers and attention, and there are some great ballet sequences as well. Concerning the finale of "Swan Lake", that is ballet that always is given a different end every time it is performed, and it would be nice to sometime learn how the story actually goes. Tchaikovsky's music is used of course, I don't think any great composer's music has been made more use of in films, which adds to the gilded performance. It's not a great film but a great comedy, on par with Ernst Lubitsch's best, and it is impossible not to enjoy it thoroughly.